Reml estimation: Asymptotic behavior and related topics

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 255-286

  Jiang, Jiming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Asymptotic normality; Consistency; Mixed models; MLE; Restricted maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030559451     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1033066209     Document Type: Article

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